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The ''Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria'' (often abbreviated as ''NAV'') is an standardized
nomenclature Nomenclature (, ) is a system of names or terms, or the rules for forming these terms in a particular field of arts or sciences. The principles of naming vary from the relatively informal conventions of everyday speech to the internationally ag ...
. It is made by
World Association of Veterinary Anatomists In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...
(WAVA). It is used as the standard reference for
anatomical Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having it ...
( zootomical) terminology in the field of Veterinary Science regarding domestic mammals (domestic birds are regarded in the ''
Nomina Anatomica Avium Nomen may refer to: *Nomen (Roman name), the middle part of Ancient Roman names * Nomen (Ancient Egypt), the personal name of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs *Jaume Nomen (born 1960), Catalan astronomer *Nomen, Latin for a certain part of speech *Nomen ...
''). It is based in cats, dogs, pigs, cows, sheep, goats, rabbits and horses, being horses their main subjects.


History

Veterinary anatomists split at the 5th International Congress of the International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee in Paris in 1955, due disagreements about the
Nomina Anatomica ''Nomina Anatomica'' (''NA'') was the international standard on human anatomic terminology from 1895 until it was replaced by '' Terminologia Anatomica'' in 1998. In the late nineteenth century some 30,000 terms for various body parts were in us ...
. Following professor
Clement Bressou Clement or Clément may refer to: People * Clement (name), a given name and surname * Saint Clement (disambiguation)#People Places * Clément, French Guiana, a town * Clement, Missouri, U.S. * Clement Township, Michigan, U.S. Other uses * ...
in 1957 in Freiburg (Germany), they form the International Committee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenclature, renamed
World Association of Veterinary Anatomists In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...
in 1961, and they published the first edition of the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria (NAV) in 1968. There have been sixth editions of the NAV, last one in 2017.''World Association of Veterinary Anatomists (WAVA)''
/ref> The 4th edition, published in 1994, was the last commercially printed edition, fifth and sixth edition are available in pdf.


See also

* ''
Nomina Anatomica ''Nomina Anatomica'' (''NA'') was the international standard on human anatomic terminology from 1895 until it was replaced by '' Terminologia Anatomica'' in 1998. In the late nineteenth century some 30,000 terms for various body parts were in us ...
''


References

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